I’ve been thinking a lot over Christmas about different things specifically nature and how autism might fit into that. Also the roles of autism and a new kind of autism or how it is presented to us.
I’ve read some things about how it may have been something which gave some of our ancestors heightened awareness and abilities, perhaps to protect or to see danger coming a long way off. This may have played a more obvious role, I still believe there are persistent and insidious threats on this planet whereby the senses protect us from group threats and masked dangers.
Neurotypicals created a world which worked for them, then preconditioned ever round to believe that this generally was the only way things could be done. But really if we look at history it’s a repeat of facism, slavery and embedded misogyny.
I don’t know if ASD people or their abilities had been enslaved previously, my life and the way I feel is that others don’t really see an issue with undermining or belittling me. I’ve realised that times I was seriously unwell or mentally unwell were when my environment was overly influenced by the wrong people or I spent too long listening to the them. Not because I was actually unwell.
I often feel that the world has had its potential limited in order to satisfy people who need it to work a certain way to meet their status quo. On a micro level at work or in the news what’s been happening.
We don’t generally tend to think of ourselves as animals or nature evolving as others animals and nature do. But natures success thrives on its own diversity, which has been proven repeatedly to create extinction for normality or things which take advantage of environments for too long.
